Forterra Systems On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) Technology Overview: A Multi-User, Virtual World Software Platform

Virtual worlds are being developed to support a variety of industries for the purposes of collaboration, training, analysis, experimentation, socializing and entertainment. The creation of realistic, virtual worlds, populated by large numbers of people, requires a sophisticated, distributed architecture. Organizations developing these solutions will need to create, support, and maintain the environment with acceptable levels of performance, security, reliability, scalability and immersiveness. The complete, integrated general-purpose capability has been the driving focus of Forterra Systems and the result of almost a decade of development and investment in the On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE). OLIVE combines multimedia, scalable computing and network enabled connectivity to provide a complete IT-ready platform for developing and supporting truly collaborative, multiplayer interactive virtual environments.